Clothes-drier.



No. 818,228. PATENTBD APR. 17, 1906 E.'BUTLER.

CLOTHES DRIER.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 12. L904.

UNITED STATES ATENT @FFTQE.

CLOTHES-DRIER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 17, 1906.

Application filed March 12,1904. Serial No. 197,847.

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ERNEST BUTLER, a citizen of the United States,residing at Sheldon, in the county of OBrien and State of Iowa, haveinvented a new and useful Clothes- Drier, of which the following is aspecification.

My invention relates to improvements in clothes-driers; and it consistsof certain novel features of construction, combination, and arrangementof parts hereinafter described and claimed.

The object of my invention is to improve and simplify the constructionand operation of devices of this character, and thereby rendering thesame more efficient, convenient, and durable.

The above and other objects, which will appear as the nature of myinvention is better understood, are accomplished by the constructionillustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a frontelevation of a clothesdrier constructed in accordance with my invention.Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view through the same. Fig. 3 is adetail'elevation, on an enlarged scale, of the winding mechanism; andFig. 41 is a detail vertical sectional view through the same.

Referring to the drawings by numeral, 1 denotes a stationary hollowpost, preferably of square or rectangular form in cross-section andadapted to receive a similar shaped post 2, which telescopes into thesame. Upon the upper end of the inner telescoping post is a head fromwhich clothes to be dried may be suspended. This clothes-drying reel isadapted to be raised and lowered bysliding the inner post 2 into and outof the hollow post 1. The post 2 is thus operated by securing to itslower end, as at 9, one end of a cable 10, which passes upwardly betweenthe said posts and out through a slot 11, formed in the hollow post 1adjacent to its upper end. Said cable 11 is wound upon a drum 12 and hasits other end secured thereto. This drum 12 is secured upon a shaft 13,which extends transversely across the slot 11 and is mounted in suitablebearings 14, which are secured upon the outside of the post 1 on eachside of said slot 11. Upon one of the outer ends of said shaft 13, whichend is cut away, as shown at 15, is removably secured, by means of asplit pin or key 16, a crank-handle 17, by means of which saidwinding-drum may be'rotated. In order to lock the drum against movement,

and thus hold the telescoping post 2 at any desired elevation, I provideupon one side of the drum a ratchet-wheel 18, the teeth 19 of which areengaged by a head 20 of a pawl 21, which is secured upon atransversely-disposed shaft 22, mounted in the upper portions of thesaid bearings 14. Upon one of the outer ends of said shaft 22 isremovably secured a weighted arm 23, which is so disposed as to hold thepawl 21 normally in engagement with the teeth of the ratchet-wheel 18 inorder to prevent retrograde movement of said wheelv It will be seen thatwhen the crank-handle 17 is turned in one direction the cable 10 will bewound upon the drum 12 and the inner post 2 will be raised to anelevated position and that when the weightarm 23 is swung upwardly todisengage the pawl 21 from the ratchet-wheel the shaft 13, and hence thedrum 12, will be permitted to rotate in the opposite direction, theweight of the post 2 causing it to descend or lower when theratchet-wheel 18 is released by the pawl 21. g

In order to limit the upward movement of the inner post 2, I provideadjacent to its lower end in one of its faces a notch or recess 24,which is adapted to be engaged by a stoppin 25, provided adjacent to theupper end of the hollow post 1. This pin 25 projects through an opening26, formed in said post 1 above the slot 11, and is secured upon thefree upper end of a spring 27, which has its opposite end secured by ascrew 28 upon the front face of said post 1. It will be seen that as thepost 2 is elevated and its notch 24 alines with the opening 26 in thepost 1 said stop-pin will spring into said notch, as shown in Fig. 4 ofthe drawings, thuslimiting the upward movement of the post 2.

From the foregoing description, taken in connection with theaccompanying drawings, the construction and operation of the inventionwill be readily understood without requiring a more extendedexplanation.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Let ters Patent, is-

The herein-described clothes-drier, comprising the hollow stationarypost 1 having the opening 26 near its upper end and the opening 11 belowsaid opening 26, the spring 27 secured on said post, the stop-pin 25 inthe opening 26 and secured to and pressed inwardly by said spring, thesliding post 2 in the hollow post 1 and having the notch 24 in one side,said notch having the inclined side and the abru t shoulder at the lowerend of said side, a c othes-supporting reel mounted on said slidingpost, the winding-drum mounted on one side of the hollow post and havingthe ratchet-wheel and the crank, whereby said drum and ratchet-wheel maybe simultaneously rotated, the weighted pawl pivotally connected to thestationary post and engaging the ratchet to prevent rotation of the drumin one direction, and the cord attached to the windingdrum, passedthrough the o ening 11 and attached to the lower end of t e slidingpost, said winding-drum and cord serving to raise the sliding post, saidpawl 15 and ratchet-wheel coacting with the drum and cord to support thesliding post in raised position, and said stop-pin and notch coacting tolimit the upward movement of the sliding post.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

ERNEST BUTLER.

Witnesses:

J. B. FRIsBEE, R. P. SooTT.

